THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES SUMNER.

Veniet fortasse aliud tempus, dignius nostro, quo, debellatis odiis,
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LEIBNITZ.

VOL. IV.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

US 5249.124 A (4)

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MARY E. HAVEN
JULY 2, 1914.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,

BY CHARLES SUMNER,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

THE ANTISLAVERY ENTERPRISE: ITS NECESSITY, PRACTICABILITY,

AND DIGNITY; WITH GLANCES AT THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF

THE NORTH. Address before the People of New York, at the

Metropolitan Theatre, May 9, 1855.

NEW OUTRAGE FOR THE SAKE OF SLAVERY. Letter to Passmore

Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison, August 11, 1855 .

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52

THE PEN BETTER THAN THE SWORD. Letter to Committee of

Publishers in New York, September 26, 1855

58

REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NEW YORK. Letter to a New York Com-

mittee, October 7, 1855 .

60

REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFSPRING OF AROUSED CONSCIENCE of the

COUNTRY. Letter to a Boston Committee, October 8, 1855

POLITICAL PARTIES AND OUR FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. Speech

at a Republican Rally in Faneuil Hall, November 2, 1855

ORIGINATION OF APPROPRIATION BILLS. Speech in the Senate, on

the Usurpation of the Senate in the Origination of Appropriation

Bills, February 7, 1856 .

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RELIEF OF VESSELS IN DISTRESS ON THE COAST. Letter to the

Director of the Exchange News-Room, Boston, February 18, 1856 93

THE EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON AGAINST SLAVERY NOT TO BE

FORGOTTEN NOW. Letter to a Committee of the Boston Mercan-

tile Library Association, February 19, 1856

CONSTANT EXERTION AND UNION AMONG GOOD MEN. Letter to a

Massachusetts Committee, February 25, 1856